Hollywood Hunter

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At more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the audition for the actor of "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" ended.

There were only three candidates for this final round of small auditions, the last of which was Don Johnson, the husband of Melanie Griffith.

Simon didn't think that Don Johnson, whose style was more of a tough guy, could play a good role as a writer, but at the request of some contacts in the Griffith family, and after watching Don Johnson's well-prepared audition tape, he changed his point of view. .

Moreover, Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon are the same age, and an alternative CP effect can also be formed between the two.

Discussing character perceptions, performing script clips, and finally the heroine Susan Sarandon came to set up the scene in person. This audition took an hour and a half, and Don Johnson's male lead was basically finalized. The filmmakers discussed details such as remuneration with Don Johnson's agent.

After get off work hours, everyone laughed and left the audition room.

Waiting for the others to leave, Don Johnson, who stayed at the end, said to Simon: "One more thing, Simon, May and I plan to hold a baptism for Dakota on the 16th of next month. I don't know if you are free to attend, little one. The guy's name is yours."

Simon almost forgot about the 'original' Dakota Johnson name for the Johnsons' soon-to-be daughter at a party at the box-office hit a few months ago for Lethal Weapon 2. thing.

The baby was born in October, but the Johnsons really used the name, and spread the news that Simon himself named it.

A little girl who was just born has attracted a lot of media attention. After Vanity Fair magazine offered a high price, a group photo of the three Johnson family finally appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in November. Mention the Simon naming thing.

Simon's interpretation of Dakota's name "The Eternal Smile" has even sparked controversy among some linguists.

"The 16th of next month," Simon thought for a while, and said, "Tang, I'm not sure if I will be in Los Angeles by then. If I am, I will definitely be there."

The release date of "Batman" is December 22, and the Los Angeles premiere of "Batman" determined by Warner Bros. will be on December 20. Simon does not intend to participate too much in the specific promotion of the film, so before December 20 Most likely won't be back.

Don Johnson didn't know Simon's arrangement, and after hearing his promise that he would definitely attend as long as he was in Los Angeles, he happily stretched out his hand and said, "That's it."

Simon and Don Johnson shook hands and said with a smile, "Of course."

The main creator of "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" has basically been finalized, and among the 10 films planned to be released next year, only "Pink League" is left.

Now that the ban on caa has been lifted, the crew has officially sent an invitation to Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks has been firmly in the ranks of first-tier male stars after "Flying Over the Future", but he has not shown the strong box office appeal of many veteran male stars, so the remuneration price given is also quite satisfactory. 5 million US dollars, Simon There was no bargaining.

Sony, which has just won Columbia Pictures, is at the stage of smugly spending money, but Simon has limited the budget of "Pink League" to 25 million US dollars.

Tom Hanks took $5 million, Geena Davis was paid $2 million, and the original director Penny Marshall and Hanks worked together in "Flying the Future" and also promoted to the front line, and the director's pay was also $500 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

The three main creators took US$12 million, and then secured US$10 million in filming expenses, and there was not much left for the salary reserved for other supporting roles. Madonna, who played soy sauce in the original version, will definitely not be invited again, and many supporting roles can only receive low weekly wages.

However, for projects led by Simon himself, Hollywood will never lack actors even if it is reversed, so the tight budget will not affect the quality of actors.

In addition to the project that officially started production, Simon has also been looking for the remaining list of 10 film plans.

The next day is Thursday, November 16th.

"Flying Over Childhood" will start drawing tomorrow, and the premiere of the film will be held in the evening at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The lively premiere started at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Simon attended alone. After a short stop on the red carpet to take pictures, he entered the theater directly. At 8 o'clock, the premiere was over, and most of the invited guests went to a nearby hotel for an after-party.

Simon originally planned to leave early, but was stopped by Terry Semel.

In the hotel banquet hall, after some entertainment, Semel and Simon came to a corner together: "That's it, Simon, Time Magazine's Person of the Year next month has been confirmed by the Time Company. "

Seeing Semel's congratulatory expression, Simon didn't understand why, and said, "Me?"

"Of course, other than you, who else has this qualification?" Terry Semel laughed: "Speaking of which, you already have this qualification two years ago, so you can arrange for a group shoot recently. Cover blockbuster, of course, you can't shirk this interview."

Time Magazine's Person of the Year.

Simon sighed in his heart, of course he knew what it meant.

As a weekly current affairs magazine with huge influence worldwide, the cover characters of each issue have attracted much attention. Some people even fake themselves on the cover of Time magazine in order to gain fame.

Time Magazine's Person of the Year is the most important person on the cover of Time Magazine every year.

Therefore, such a cover is definitely not so good.

In fact, some media predicted last year that Simon would become Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1988, but in the end, Time would rather give the place to the "endangered earth" than to Simon.

In the face of outside doubts, "Time" magazine explained that Simon was too young to meet the standard of being the man of the year.

This year has suddenly reached the 'standard'.

This is certainly not accidental, but more of a matter of course.

If you think about it a little, you can understand that this is the result of Warner's efforts. Time Inc. and Warner Bros. got rid of Paramount's entanglement and have officially reached an M\u0026A agreement.

Simon became the richest man in the Federation at the age of 21 this year, and he is qualified enough. In addition, in order to build momentum for "Batman" to be released next month, this year's "Time" Weekly Person of the Year is naturally impossible to fall on others.

There has never been a media that can maintain absolute impartiality and neutrality in this world. Since Time Magazine is already under the brand-new Time Warner Company, it will naturally favor the interests of the company.

Simon clearly remembers that after the release of "Wonder Woman" in the original time and space, as the treasure in the palm of Warner Bros., all the main creators of the "Wonder Woman" project have been 'carefully cared' by Time Warner's media, and they are so meticulous that they have no qualifications at all. "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins was named Time's Person of the Year for the outrageous claim that 'Patty Jenkins redefined how the world should see women' .

Thinking like this, Simon didn't refuse, just said: "But, Terry, I'm going to Europe this weekend."

"This is not a problem. As long as you cooperate, they will send someone to Europe to take pictures and interviews for you. The time will probably be at the end of the month."

"Let them contact my assistant at that time." Simon nodded, he has received enough attention in recent years, but he did not produce too much excitement, and changed the subject: "You guys are here for Cooper- Peters Productions is suing Sony for $1 billion, which is pretty tough."

Sony has determined that two veteran Hollywood producers, Peter Cooper and Jon Peters, will take the helm of Columbia Pictures. Not only did they offer high salary terms, but they also bought their production for $200 million in cash. company.

However, Cooper-Peters Productions was originally affiliated with Warner Bros. Pictures. Sony just completed the acquisition of this production company, and Warner filed a lawsuit against Sony, citing Cooper-Peters Productions breach of contract. Claim $1 billion.

Terry Semel heard Simon mention this and smiled: "You know Steve, but he doesn't like the Japanese reaching out to Hollywood. This is our territory."

Simon knew that Warner had finally knocked out $600 million from the Japanese and became the first "tuition" paid by Sony in Hollywood. He admired Steve Ross's methods and secretly reminded himself not to make similar mistakes.

After the premiere, the next day, "Flying Over Childhood" officially opened on a large scale with 2,206 screens in North America.

Back to the Future 2, the sequel to the 1985 box-office winner "Back to the Future" produced by Universal Pictures, is scheduled for Wednesday, November 22.

In order to avoid the edge of "Back to the Future 2", a total of 6 new films will be released on November 17, including "Flying Innocent" by Daenerys and Warner Bros., "Harlem Nightclub" produced by Paramount And Orion Pictures' "Phantom Sea Childhood" screen number is around 2,000.

Daenerys' collaboration with Warner Bros. is certainly not to be underestimated, but other studios seem to think it's better to "get along".

As for next week, in addition to the release of the Gucci fashion documentary officially named "Gucci Mark" by Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Pictures, "Back to the Future 2" can be said to dominate the Thanksgiving week schedule.

Ella Deutschman is also quite puzzled about Simon's decision to insist on "Gucci Mark" and "Back to the Future 2", but Simon did not explain much to him.

In memory, compared to the first annual box office champion with a domestic box office of more than 200 million US dollars, the box office of "Back to the Future 2" sequel has shrunk by half. Universal invested all available resources for this sequel film, but the production budget was as high as 40 million US dollars. Although the box office of "Back to the Future 2" still exceeded 100 million, it was far from the producer's expectations. It's no exaggeration to describe it.

"Back to the Future 2" is not as strong as the outside world imagined, and "Gucci Mark" will naturally not be too severely impacted.

On the other hand, because a lot of preparatory work had been done in advance, with Simon's permission, Nancy convened another meeting on the acquisition of ea on Friday, and James Raybould also flew over from the east coast to participate this time.

It is impossible for Cersei Capital's funds to be transferred back to China in the short term. Nancy plans to formally contact ea this weekend, and it is likely that the money will not be used. However, after the income from all aspects is summarized in the second half of the year, even if Daenerys Entertainment does not rely on the funds in the hands of Cersei Capital, it is not a big problem to win ea within the budget of 350 million US dollars.

The meeting about the acquisition of ea was over, Simon sent the others away, and formally discussed the plan to acquire mca with Amy and James.

After brokering the Sony-Columbia deal, Michael Ovitz should have been pushing Panasonic to buy Universal's parent company mca, but the deal is similar to Sony's acquisition of Columbia.

In this way, it will also drag on for a long time, and Simon has many opportunities to cut Hu.

Simon's plan to acquire mca was only slightly revealed to the female assistant before, and both Amy and James were very surprised, followed by excitement.

If it can win the mca, Daenerys Entertainment will become the largest studio in Hollywood, and the company's previous shortcomings in records, TV, content and theme parks will be immediately made up.

Of course, this is not without problems.

The market value of mca is now close to 4 billion US dollars. Amy and James both believe that Daenerys Entertainment may have to prepare 8 billion US dollars of funds to win this company.

It's no secret that mca chairman Lou Vasalman made an $8 billion offer to Sony last year.

Because he is familiar with the economic trend of North America in the next year, Simon is more optimistic than both Amy and James, knowing that it will not take so much money to complete the acquisition. Still, even at $8 billion, that figure wouldn't be too much of a problem for Simon.

With the end of the U.S. junk bond market last year, Cersei Capital has enough capital to reach $8 billion. Next, the turbulence in oil prices caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Gulf War was enough for Simon to continue to make a fortune.

Entering the 1990s, the prices of major Hollywood studios will only get higher and higher, and the sooner they win Universal, the better it will be for Daenerys Entertainment.

Of course, this cannot be done overnight.

Simon just informed Amy and James of their own plans this time, and let them start some related preparations now. Compared with ea, which has a market value of less than 200 million US dollars, if you want to win a company like mca, which is already considered a giant in this era, it will be at least next year.

At the same time, Simon did not plan to take a hostile takeover this time, so he did not let James start to absorb mca's stock in advance. Although this can save some money in future acquisitions, it is easy to cause misunderstandings by mca management, making Lou Vasalman and others think that Simon is going to launch a hostile takeover.

In order to save one or two hundred million dollars and trigger the hostility of mca management, it is actually more than worth the loss for a multi-billion dollar business.

Janet will arrive in Los Angeles around two o'clock in the afternoon, end the meeting with the two, and after everyone has lunch together, Simon will rush to the Los Angeles International Airport to pick them up.

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